Are terrible tourists taking over? It seems like every day brings new reports of a traveler doing something offensive in a foreign place.

Unfortunately, tourists behaving badly isn’t new. As the constant stream of news stories about them threatens to inundate us, we’ve decided to look back at the last decade to pick out the very worst reports.

The 13 most horrifying stories of tourists behaving badly over the last decade slides

The 13 most horrifying stories of tourists behaving badly over the last decade slides

Two tourists tried to steal bricks from the crematorium of a concentration camp as a souvenir.

In 2018, two Hungarian tourists tried to steal bricks from the crematorium at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp that was located in occupied Poland during WWII. It’s estimated over 1 million people died there between 1940 and 1945.

Travelers also likely caused the death of a baby dolphin in Spain in an attempt to take photos with it.

A charity called Equinac said the tourists‘ behavior likely shocked the animal and may have caused its heart failure. One image Equinac posted on Facebook even appeared to show a child covering the animal’s blowhole, which it uses to breathe.

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A British family in New Zealand had their visas revoked after they were accused of littering and trying to get free food from restaurants.

A large British family from Liverpool with 10-15 members gained notoriety in New Zealand during a month in early 2019 as they traveled the country.

A Danish photographer posted images of himself that seem to depict him having sex atop the Great pyramid of Giza.

In November 2018, Andreas Hvid, a Danish photographer, posted a photo of himself in which it looks as though he is having sex with a woman atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. There was an immediate backlash and prosecutors began investigating the incident.

While Hvid claims they didn’t actually have intercourse, he does admit to illegally scaling the pyramid. In December 2018, the Guardian reported that two people accused of helping Hvid access the pyramid were arrested.

The video of him and the unidentified woman climbing it is still online.

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A British tourist was sentenced to six months in prison for slapping an immigration official after missing her flight.

An Indonesian court sentenced British tourist Auj-e Taqaddas to six months in a local prison for slapping an immigration official after she missed her flight back in July 2018.

Taqaddas had missed her flight to Singapore because she had to pay Indonesian authorities a fine for overstaying her visa for 160 days, The Jakarta Post reported.

The incident, which took place at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia, was recorded and went semi-viral at the time.

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Drunk British tourists broke into a Sea World in Australia and stole a penguin.

A pair of drunk British tourists were fined $1,000 for stealing a penguin from a Sea World near Surfer’s Paradise in Australia in May 2012. They awoke to find a penguin in their room without any recollection as to how it got there, but reportedly had broken into Sea World where they swam with dolphins before taking Dirk the penguin out of his enclosure.

They then released Dirk into a local waterway, putting the penguin at immense risk, before local authorities found him. According to the Daily Mail, they pleaded guilty to trespass, theft, and unlawfully keeping a protected animal.

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Two tourists faced Thai prison for spray-painting a brick wall from the 13th century.

Two travelers from Canada and the UK apparently found a can of spray paint while inebriated and decided to tag the nearest wall — which happened to be the Tha Phae Gate, a popular tourist attraction in Bangkok, Thailand, that dates back to the 13th century.

Two US tourists posed naked at a famous Buddhist temple in Thailand — among other sites — for their Instagram account called "Traveling Butts."

Two US men traveled the world taking nude photos at various famous sites for their now-deleted Instagram account, „Traveling Butts.“

They were detained, fined for public indecency, and blacklisted from returning to Thailand after exposing their rear ends at the Wat Arun temple, according to The Telegraph.

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Numerous tourists have been caught carving their initials into the walls of Rome's Colosseum.

There were numerous reports during the last decade of tourists defacing the 2,000-year-old Colosseum in Rome, Italy, which is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

In 2014, a Russian tourist was fined over $28,000 for reportedly carving the letter „K“ into the historic structure and given a four-month suspended prison sentence. He was the fifth tourist to try to deface the building that year after a father and son Australian duo as well as two teenagers from Canada and Brazil, according to CNN.

In 2015, two Californian women were reportedly caught scratching their initials into a wall with a coin and then took a selfie. The women later apologized to local media outlets.